Friday 10 May 2013

mi mamam emima

Radical cleric Abu Qatada would return to Jordan voluntarily if the country ratified a treaty drawn up with the UK government, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) has heard.
The treaty deals with the use of evidence obtained by torture.
Abu Qatada's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald QC, told the court of the decision during a hearing to decide whether he should be released on bail.
Downing Street said it was "determined" to send the cleric to Jordan.
Abu Qatada faces terrorism charges there after being convicted in his absence in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
It is on these charges that, under Jordanian law, he faces a retrial. But his lawyers claim he would not get a fair trial because the evidence against him comes from people who were tortured into implicating him.
He has never been charged with an offence in the UK, although the government has been trying to deport him for almost eight years, during which time he has been in and out of jail.
The cleric is currently in prison after being arrested in March for allegedly breaching his strict bail conditions.
Last year, Siac, which adjudicates on national security-related deportations, ruled Abu Qatada should not be removed from the UK because of fears that evidence obtained through torture would be used against him in Jordan.
The government lost an appeal against the ruling and it also failed in its bid to get the case referred to the Supreme Court.
Treaty signed Home Secretary Teresa May said she was subsequently applying di